- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"309 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS Wescott", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19203", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1917-1976", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1917/1976"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1917
- date_inclusive_end
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1976
- keydate
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1917
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Glenway Wescott collection of papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts and manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks for 1919 through 1951, a notebook for 1917 through 1920, and a portrait photograph."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Wescott, Glenway, 1901-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Glenway Wescott was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, literary critic, and essayist.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts and manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, notebooks for 1919 through 1951, a notebook for 1917 through 1920, and a portrait photograph. The manuscripts and typescripts include drafts of novels, biographies, short stories, notes for works, poems, and translations. The correspondence, dating from 1922 to 1976, includes letters from the author to John Cheever, Babette Deutsch, Christopher Isherwood, Alfred Kazin, William Maxwell, Howard Moss, Caroline Newton, Edward Sackville-West, Louis Untermeyer, Monroe Wheeler, E. B. White, Thornton Wilder, and others. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1954 through 1955, between various correspondents, including Monroe Wheeler, Antonio Frasconi, and the Spiral Press. There are letters to Wescott from Ann Barnes, Janice Biala, Hope Gill, Harper & Bros., Harper's Magazine, Christopher Isherwood, Marianne Moore, Mary Warner Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Roger Senhouse, Louis Untermeyer, and Thornton Wilder, dating from [1932] to 1971.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Glenway Wescott collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19203#c225356'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19203#c225453'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19203#c225498'>Portraits</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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309 items
- date_start
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1917
- date_end
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1976